made 6pax RI bros dinner this evening on 30.8.2021.^^
menu
chicken rice (白斩鸡1 kampung chicken+rice)
梅菜扣肉belly pork with mustard vegetables
claypot tanhoon prawns
ah yat style garlic hk steam 龙虎斑
thai basil lala
fried baby spinach
LCH –
“Wonderful evening of food, wine and desert and company! Thanks Andy for hosting and cooking, Eddie for the wine, SCG for the “curry” ice cream and Siak for the thai curry and desert.”
SCG brought a snapper from his many fishing catches & HCK brought chinese tea capsules.
we all had a great evening of fellowship and fun enjoyable dinner. 🙂
basically I rendered fragrant garden claypot pomfret soup, using sliced patin and sea bream.
fried fish head and bones with lots of browned crisp julienned ginger, 1 chilli padi, 5 cloves garlic cut into 3 each, and 1/2 sliced red onions, added salt and boiled for 3 hrs, reduced to a very tasty whitish soup, added 3 tbsp huadiao wine, boiled another 1-2hrs with cabbage and added 1 sour plum mashed…very very sweet tasty soup, and added sliced fish poached and served.
made 6pax dinner for OPS bros + spouses on 19.8.2021.^^
白斩鸡 & chicken rice (1 kampung chicken)
梅菜扣肉
claypot tanhoon prawns
ah yat style garlic hk steamed dragon tiger garoupa
thai basil lala
HC brought excellent Leong Ji rojak cuttlefish kang kong (everyone loved it!) ..
I added giant cockles ure poached how long, certainly more than 3mins! WT made the right decision to open one and check doneness…turned out pretty good..
jessie brought jelly & wife brought fruit platter
all the dishes 梅菜扣肉,chicken rice, tanhoon prawns, dragon tiger garoupa 龙虎斑all excellent! lala very succulent & tasty..water a bit much so Thai basil taste diluted…will improve next time…
ah Heng’s curry chicken noodles my favourite…and pong’s laksa is a proxy – the best laksa for me, still not comparable with curry chicken noodles.
easy to make.
I added lots of haebee to make the gravy closer to curry chicken noodles, and followed the usual instructions, fried the laksa paste, then added chicken stock (instead of water), and 1 can of evaporated milk and 200ml packet of coconut milk. I cooked the taupok earlier separately in the chicken stock till soft and absorbent and added the teochew fish cake – everything like curry chicken noodles…usually I add my own 白斩鸡…today don’t have so added prawns.
and added thick beehoon mee…same same as my preference for curry chicken noodles.
had 5pax family sunday lunch @ kai gardens with wife, wen, PT, SL on 15.8.2021.^^
we took the S$128++ peking duck business set lunch for 4pax and dded couple dimsum – steamed pork ribs and xo cheong fun. 🙂
daikon appetizer
deepfried fish skin
凉拌云耳
小笼包
dimsum
kai gardens peking duck2 五彩缤纷鸭
kai gardens peking duck2 五彩缤纷鸭
crispy flaky corn fritters
kai gardens peking duck2 五彩缤纷鸭
peking duck 鸭件
excellent soup例汤
delicious truffle angelhair
delicious truffle angelhair
black sesame cake
stirfried garoupa
the 2 appetisers – deep-fried fish skin salted egg flavoured not so salty was excellent, and the 小笼包very good too.
the set was wonderful as before.
peking duck among the best, as good or better than imperial treasure super peking duck. I like the crispy corn fritter which is unique and added texture to the peking duck roll.
after the skin, the restaurant served the chopped duck nicely – greedy us elected to eat than tapao. 🙂
the soup 例汤 was excellent.
garoupa fillet very good,
and the truffle angel hair was delicious, the best! really excellent…I will try making this myself…
made delciious bakut prawn beehoon mee lunch for SM & JH on 7.8.2021.^^
this just a quick and shortcut way to make a delicious tasty Bakut prawn beehoon mee. lol!
save the effort of frying boiling making prawn stock over many hours.
just cook pork soft bones in chicken stock for 1.5hrs…pork soft bones will be tender and tasty and soup sweet & tasty as well.
then add cleaned deveined large prawns and boil for few minutes…prawns will be just nice and totally fresh and sweet 鲜甜 and the soup will be tasty with great prawn stock taste.
making beehoon me dry is quite standard-
1tsp fish sauce, 1tsp oyster sauce, 1tsp tomato sauce, 2-3tsp black vinegar, 1tbsp oil and 1tbsp crispy prawn chilli & toast…..voila!
c.h.e.f 